For Mayor Brown, of course, the satisfaction comes from bolstering his image as a technology supporter and promoter of the Bay Area's high-technology economy.
"We have worked with Microsoft for years – they've been a great customer, a technology supporter, and IT management partner," the BlueStripe team writes on its homepage today.
Technology, its supporters believe, could solve these problems because it would provide people with a way to interact with the state without depending on local officials who are now the main gatekeepers of government services.
Theoretically, then, an OTEC plant can be built anywhere that the ocean has a surface temperature above 25°C and is more than 1km deep.Fortunately for the technology's supporters, that state of affairs pertains in several places of interest to America's Defence Department.
This has been rumoured with every new iPhone in recent years, then failed to materialise, much to the disappointment of the technology's supporters.
The lifeboat has been taking part in a trial of a new technology that supporters say could not only save lives but bring superfast broadband to rural communities that so far have been cut off from the information age.
Saudi Arabia has also bet heavily on carbon capture and storage, an ambitious but still-nascent technology that supporters hope will be able to suck large volumes of carbon dioxide out of the air.
The goal of such trading is to foster international markets for energy-efficient technologies, treaty supporters said.
"He understands how jobs are created, efficiencies are achieved, and playing fields are leveled through technology," said Garcetti supporter Marc Mitchell, who co-founded Culver City marketing start-up Lootsie.
And thanks to that, the technology has both supporters and detractors, he said.
In the presidential election, Barack Obama used practically every type of new social technology to reach supporters, including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
